Corset



I July 26, 1938.

c. KOFORD 2,125,185

CORSET Filed Sept. 11, 1936 2 SheetsSheet 1 m INVENTOR.

A TTORNEYS.

Patented July 26, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Bone Company, Inc.,

of Pennsylvania Erie, Pa., a corporation Application September 11, 1936, Serial No. 100,324

2 Claims.

This invention relates to corsets including in the term corsets body braces, foundation garments, girdles, and supporting belts. The object of the invention is the attainment of adjustable support of controlled intensity more or less 10- calized. As an example it may be arranged to afford a support over the sacrum. This may be of advantage to relieve sacroiliac sprain. It may be utilized to very effectually brace the spine so as to assist in the treatment of fractured vertebra, or similar troubles.

It may be utilized also to localize and intensify support at other portions of the body and while preferably and usually applied at the rear is not limited to such application in the broader phases of the invention.

It may be used also to reduce large hips at the largest point of circumference giving a slenderizing appearance to the figure. V

It may be utilized also in supplementing and assisting in supporting surgical pads where they are being used.

Features and details of the invention will appear from the specification and claims.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings as follows:-

Fig. 1 is a front view of the corset in closed position on a figure.

Fig. 2 is a similar view with the lower part of the corset open.

Fig. 3 an enlarged rear section of a fragment of the inside of the corset showing the cross straps.

Fig. 4 a rear view of the corset in position on a figure.

Fig. 5 an elevation of the rear of the corset in completely open position.

I marks the sides of the corset, 2 the upper front of the corset which is secured at one edge with a side by hooks and loops 3, and 4 the lower front of the corset, the edges of which are detachably secured along the center by hooks and loops 5. The rear edges of the sides, in the preferred embodiment exemplified, have lacing eyelets 6 through which laces l are threaded for adjustably securing the rear edges of the sides. So far the structure is a common construction in corsets. The lacing while preferably at the rear may be otherwise located and the securing means for securing normally detachable edges, which in the preferred form as exemplified, are along the front may be otherwise located and arranged following ordinary corset practice.

Straps 8 are secured to the rear edges of the sides at 9. Preferably the points 9 are off-set sidewise slightly from the eyelets 6 and the corset along the points 9 is reenforced by stays Ill. Free running pull loops l I are secured by flexible loops 12 to the corset side, preferably adjacent to the stays I0. These loops are off-set vertically, or in height, from the securing points 9.

Each strap 8 is threaded through an opposing loop and returned crosswise in the direction of the side to which the strap is secured. The straps are continued to a point along the sides to which they may be secured. Preferably the straps are extended through slots l3 adjacent to the stays l0 and carried around to the front of the corset and through slits I4 between the flaps 4 forming the lower front of the corset and are secured by adjustable buckles IS, the buckles being secured by flexible loops [6 to the upper front of the corset. In this way the free ends of the straps and their securing buckles are covered by the overlapping lower portion of the corset.

With this structure the free-running loops operate to increase the localized pull on the crossing straps at the point of crossing so that the stress at the crossing location of the straps may be intensified over the stress along the free ends of the straps. The crossing point may be varied, as desired, depending on the object and locality of stress desired.

The manner of threading in order to clear one crossing from the other is clearly illustrated in Fig. 3 wherein one strap is carried on the return through the rear of the running loop.

The corset is stayed through the diiferent portions in the manner of ordinary corsets to give the action that may be desired.

What I claim as new is:-

1. In a corset, the combination of corset sides having opposing edges; normally detachable top and bottom front portions overlapping each other; straps secured at opposing points at the rear of the corset; loops off-set in height from the points of securing the straps through which the straps are threaded and extended in a return direction; and securing means for the free ends of at least one strap between the overlapped portions of the front.

2. In a corset, the combination of corset sides having opposing edges; lacing securing the opposing edges; running loops secured at opposite points adjacent to the laced edges on each side; and straps secured to the sides adjacent the laced edges at points offset in height from the loops, each strap crossing its companion strap between the sides and between the securing points of the straps and the loops, said straps each being threaded through the loop on the opposite side from that to which the strap is secured and returned to the other side substantially at the opposite loop and adapted to be secured in counterpulling relation with its companion strap, the straps supplementing the lacing and adding 10- calized pull on the edges.

CLIFTON KOFORD. 

